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Well, we'll get a back. we've seen this and we've seen coverage of that. we haven't seen the big one. what about our attack on the electric grid in new england in january? that may be sophisticated enough to take it out in three days. how many people will die from minus degree weather on that? i mean, those are things that you have to try anticipate what are the capabilities that our adversaries now have if they wanted to use them? >> john, that gets our attention. and what's the gap between that potential reality and our reality, what we're doing to prevent it right now? >> well, i think we'r...

January? that may be sophisticated enough to take it out in three days. how many people will die from minus degree weather on that? i mean, those are things that you have to try anticipate what are the capabilities that our adversaries now have if they wanted to use them? >> john, that gets our attention. and what's the gap between that potential reality and our reality, what we're doing to prevent it right now? >> well, i think we're doing a lot to prevent that kind of cyber 9/11 in a sense of preparing our defenses. but on the other hand this white house has eliminated the cyber coordinator ...

>> john, that gets our attention. and what's the gap between that potential reality and our reality, what we're doing to prevent it right now? >> well, i think we're doing a lot to prevent that kind of cyber 9/11 in a sense of preparing our defenses. but on the other hand this white house has eliminated the cyber coordinator who would have been the person to organize all of the efforts in the u.s. government. the problem with cyber, brian, is that everyone has a piece of it. on the technical side you have the national security agency. on the policy side you have the department of homeland secu...

A member of the committee, and there is a couple problems with this response. clearly the president equivocating on whether or not vladimir putin was responsible is a problem and it's why. we're under attack and we need a coordinated response, and when the president is on again and offer again, mostly denying it, it makes it impossible for that to happen. the national security advisor abolishing the position of cyber coordinator. a bizarre decision given that. the second reason this is important, john, is i have met with people in earn eurostern e that have been putting up with russian interfe...

Weapon of mass destruction picked the weapon of mass destruction had been one of those airliners that hit the twin towers, we would not be talking about 3,000 victims, we would be talking about 300,000 victims or more. these are the things that we have to think about it we cannot rest on our laurels that we collect a lot of information, we know what is going on. there are people out there playing this game of chess with us in ways that are going to take us down. we have to be better than they. that is a huge challenge and that is why i say it is a whole government effort that has to take place...